AUGUSTA, Ga. -- For the second straight round at the Masters, Jordan Spieth had a quadruple-bogey on the back nine.
Only it wasn't at No. 12. And it's only Thursday.
Spieth was even par for the opening round when his third shot on the par-5 15th hit the front of the green and spun back into the water. His fifth shot sailed over the green, and it kept getting worse. He pitched long and went to the front of the green, and then he three-putted for a 9. That put him at 4 over with three holes to play.
In the last 30 years, no player who has carded a triple-bogey or worse has ever gone on to win the Masters.
"You think of it as a birdie hole, obviously being a par 5," Spieth said. "And unfortunately I still thought of it as a birdie hole today and it really isn't when you lay up. So I didn't take my medicine and hit it about 15 feet right with a club that takes the spin off.
"I was stuck in the 15-is-a-birdie-hole mentality, and it kind of bit me a little bit. I struck the shot well, I just hit the wrong club."
A year ago, Spieth hit two in the water at No. 12 and made a quadruple-bogey that sent him from a 1-shot lead to a 3-shot deficit and cost him another green jacket.
"I always have nerves walking to that tee," said Spieth, the 2015 Masters champion. "I always have. It was tough today because you don't know exactly what the wind is going to do to the ball. I ripped one. I was very surprised at how far it flew and how little the wind affected it. I think if we hit it three minutes later the ball could have landed in a totally different location."
The conditions made the course so tough on Thursday that Spieth had plenty of time to recover. In fact, he birdied the next hole.
Spieth went into the clubhouse 3 over for the day.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
